On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was trying unsuccessfully to install Fedora-13 > on a rather old (maybe 11 years) machine > with an Asus P2B-LS motherboard, using pxeboot > (which worked on several other machines), > and I found after some time that changing the boot order > in the BIOS had no effect. > Whatever order I chose the machine boots from > one of the two SCSI drives. > > Has anyone else met this problem? > I recently ran into a system that would not boot from a DVD even though the boot order was set correctly in the BIOS. The same system with the same BIOS settings booted from a CD. I'm guessing that that system's BIOS was too old to be able to handle booting from a DVD. Just a WAG, but since the CD got me around my problem I didn't bother digging any deeper. > It's not the end of the world, > as (hopefully) I can transfer the DVD iso file, > and add a stanza in grub.conf . > If you are going to a hard disk install you may want to look up a thread on this list with the subject: Fedora 13 beta ISO install from hard drive There are some differences in the HD install from previous releases. Mike -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
